Thus for cosmologist GeorgeEllis and theologian Nancey Murphy , the fact that creatures capable
of moral agency such as us have evolved in the universe is evidence
that God designed the universe with the intention to create

have
been discussed by GeorgeEllis , Nancey Murphy , Robert Russell , and Thomas
Tracy . God as top-down cause
might represent divine action on the world as a whole, as Arthur Peacocke
maintains together with his

is also co-author with George F.R. Ellis of On the Moral Nature of the
Universe : Theology, Cosmology , and Ethics. Murphy is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and an ordained
minister in